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I'm passionate about mobile, media, software dev, and the resulting apps. I direct the MyiLibrary dev team at Ingram Content Group, where we build the leading platform for e-content aggregation for libraries around the world.

Reach me at +1-707-659-6864 (70-sol-young) or sol@solyoung.com. All opinions on my site are my own and not necessarily those of ICG.

Recently I had a broken Siri. I’d talk and she’d think for a long time before saying, “Sorry Sol, something’s gone wrong. Can you try that again?” In trying to fix the problem I found the following things others had tried, and something new that got mine working… Off and On – From Settings go…

I was at Best Buy today for an iPad case. Another iPad owner was doing the same. He had waited in line and eagerly bought one on April 3rd like the rest of us. But he hadn’t used his yet. He couldn’t. His MacBook was 10.4 (Tiger) and couldn’t run the required version of iTunes…

I’m on the train in to Philadelphia and writing this post on a wifi-only iPad via wifi tethering. The 3G iPads come out later this month, but why would you want an additional $30 per month plan when most mobile phones have decent bluetooth or wifi tethering options? I set up my Google nexus one…

I’m wrapping up two days with the iPad. Day one was getting used to the device and picking up some apps. Apps There isn’t a lot out there yet that is iPad optimized. I only found about a dozen apps I wanted to download and use… Amongst those: The requisite iWork suite (Pages, Numbers, and…

Purchase I got in line at 8:30 and was out the door with my iPad by 9:15 (actual arrival time at the Apple store was 7:45 in case it was mobbed, but only 50 people were there and it was cold. Lounging in Starbucks was a hell of a lot better). In the Apple Store…